{"id":212788,"date":"2026-03-20T11:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212788\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:12:06","slug":"ingleside-primary-educator-named-elementary-teacher-of-the-year-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212788\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingleside Primary educator named Elementary Teacher of the Year today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INGLESIDE, Texas \u2014 An Ingleside Primary educator was named Elementary Teacher of the Year for the entire school district today.<\/p>\n<p>Regena Collins-Chavez has proudly served her students at the school for the last 35 years. The school came together to honor her with a special surprise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just do my job,&#8221; Collins-Chavez said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a complete family from the top to the bottom, and it was nice to share all that with them,&#8221; Collins-Chavez said. &#8220;And of course the kids were overwhelmed and now I&#8217;m super special and I&#8217;m sure today they&#8217;re gonna listen to me more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While her students were excited for their teacher, to Collins-Chavez she has simply just done her job.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLESIDE, Texas \u2014 An Ingleside Primary educator was named Elementary Teacher of the Year for the entire school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,31686],"class_list":["post-212788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-ingleside-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}